Add superscript rendering

[Piker98988]

When I find myself working with different languages in the same file and i want to mention words of a different language, i usually superscript the language over the word, so i know what language it is from. With glow, which i use daily, this superscript doesn't render: word^lang^

I'm nowhere near an expert, but as it hasn't been done yet it is probably hard to do. Adding a functionality to render markdown superscript would be the solution

An alternative i have considered is not using the superscript, or using another markdown renderer.

For example, as in the markdown official website:

[bobbykjack]

The closest things to a "markdown official website" are:

• The CommonMark spec—the closest we have to an 'official' spec—which doesn't mention superscript
• Gruber's original post—the genesis of Markdown—which doesn't mention superscript either

There are many variants of markdown—I'm not sure exactly which one glow uses, but it's usually only safe to assume the Gruber syntax, so something like superscript is probably an extension.

From a search, I've located the site you referred to. This is not a "markdown official website" and the bit of text just clipped above your screenshot reads:

This isn’t common, but some Markdown processors allow you to use superscript to position one or more characters slightly above the normal line of type.

None of this is to say that support for superscript couldn't or shouldn't be added to glow, it's just some background info explaining why it might not be.